Governance. Risk. Compliance. Cybersecurity.
Our people

Senior consultants, on every engagement.

MAST is a partner-led firm. The Lead Auditor or Director who scopes your engagement is the same person who runs it — not a junior analyst pool. Below are the practice leads and senior practitioners behind our work across the GCC, India and beyond.

Abhay Pandey
Abhay Pandey
Founder & CEO
Dubai

Visionary entrepreneur with 18+ years of global techno-consulting and enterprise-transformation experience. Founded MAST Consulting Group in 2016 as a self-funded UAE startup (MAS Tech Consulting) and has since grown it into a regional consulting force spanning UAE, India and Greece — adding MAS Tech General Trading and MAST Advisory Services along the way. Today he leads MAST's work in AI, cybersecurity and B2B/B2C digital platforms with a single focus: enabling secure, scalable, sustainable growth for clients.

Founder & CEO, MAST Consulting GroupBoard Member, Zimbori Game Studio
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Anil Sahore
Anil Sahore
Head of Advisory — Regulatory and Compliance
Dubai

Seasoned consulting leader with 35+ years of experience in IT audit, compliance and digital transformation. Held leadership roles at KPMG (Technical Director, IT Audit & Assurance — 9+ years) and Wipro Consulting before joining MAST. Has delivered complex, high-stakes engagements across industries and government — from cybersecurity strategy and business-process reengineering to large-scale IT programme management and regulatory transformation.

ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Lead Auditor & Tutor (CQI-IRCA)ISO 9001:2015 Lead AuditorISO/IEC 27701:2019 Auditor
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NJ
Naval Jadhav
Director — GRC & Compliance
Dubai

Experienced governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) leader with over 15 years of industry expertise. He heads deep-dive regulatory compliance, data privacy, and AI governance implementations at MAST Consulting. Specializes in building secure, resilient frameworks that align corporate risk management with evolving international standards across the Middle East.

Director of GRC, MAST ConsultingInformation Security & Privacy Lead ImplementerAdvanced Risk Management Specialist
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